Saeed Ghorbani

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Saeed Ghorbani

Ubisoft La Forge

Toronto, Canada

I am an R&D Scientist at Ubisoft La Forge, Toronto. I did my PhD at York University, advised by Dr. Niko Troje where I was also a VISTA and CVR trainee. My research interests are machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, and computer animation. My current research focus is on leveraging novel deep probabilistic models for realistic human motion modelling.

News

Jul 19, 2024

Our paper on human pose estimation with cross-view and temporal cues has been accepted to ECCV 2024.

Mar 13, 2023

Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech is published at Computer Graphics Forum. Link to the paper

Nov 28, 2022

ZEGGS is featured in Two Minute Papers channel.

Nov 28, 2022

I will give a talk in SIGGRAPH ASIA on Thursday, 8 December 20225:00pm - 6:00pm KST for the Games Feature Sessions. Details.

Oct 12, 2022

We published our work on Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech including code, dataset, and preprint.

Selected publications

  1. ECCV
    UPose3D: Uncertainty-Aware 3D Human Pose Estimation with Cross-View and Temporal Cues
    Vandad Davoodnia, Saeed Ghorbani, Marc-André Carbonneau, Alexandre Messier, and Ali Etemad
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
  2. ECCVW
    SkelFormer: Markerless 3D Pose and Shape Estimation using Skeletal Transformers
    Vandad Davoodnia, Saeed Ghorbani, Alexandre Messier, and Ali Etemad
    ECCVW Workshop on Video Games 2024
  3. CGF
    ZeroEGGS: Zero-shot Example-based Gesture Generation from Speech
    Saeed Ghorbani, Ylva Ferstl, Daniel HoldenNikolaus F. Troje, and Marc-André Carbonneau
    Computer Graphics Forum 2023
  4. CGF
    Probabilistic Character Motion Synthesis using a Hierarchical Deep Latent Variable Model
    Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Computer Aanimation) 2020
  5. PLOS ONE
    MoVi: A large multi-purpose human motion and video dataset
    Saeed Ghorbani, Kimia Mahdaviani, Anne Thaler, Konrad Kording, Douglas James Cook, Gunnar Blohm, and Nikolaus F. Troje
    Plos one 2021
  6. CGI
    Auto-labelling of markers in optical motion capture by permutation learning
    Saeed Ghorbani, Ali Etemad, and Nikolaus F. Troje
    In Computer Graphics International 2019